Going back to 6 - This is beyond buggy

[capknight]

Hello,

 

Proactive backup doesn't work, standard backup randomly crashes, doesn't list the amount of space on tapes and seems to confuse our LTO-3 requiring us to restart the unit which requires a reboot of our Xserve.

 

This is unusable and Retrospect should be ashamed of releasing this far too early. I cannot believe that such a mission critical piece of software would be this buggy on release.

 

Regardless, until we can find a better option, I'll be re-loading Retrospect 6 back onto all our machines.

 

My question is will the newer client work with 6.0 or do I have to re-load all the clients as well?

 

Thanks,

 

C

 

 

[CallMeDave]

doesn't list the amount of space on tapes

 

Just thought I'd point out that no software can do this.

 

Note also that a new build is supposed to be provided next week, which includes PPC support. This promises to be a pretty big change, and hopefully will address many of the outstanding bugs (of which you list only a few).

 

By all means make sure you have good backups, and if that means using 6.1.x then do so. But come back in a week and see if the new build lives up to its promises. I'm hopeful.

 

 

Dave

[capknight]

Hello,

 

Thanks for the information. I'm still in the process of evaluating if moving to something such as BRU and trying to get a refund for Retrospect 8 or just reverting to Retrospect 6 until 2010 while they work out the bugs.

 

Best,

 

C

[Mayoff]

A new version will be released next week with 100's of bug fixes. Give it a try. If you still have trouble, it may be a good idea to call Tech Support so we can troubleshoot the problem with you.